The United States said Friday the Sudanese government's ceasefire with another rebel movement is "a very important step" toward establishing peace in the western Darfur region. The ceasefire signed in Qatar Thursday by the Sudanese government and the Liberation and Justice Movement, an alliance of splinter factions, followed another brokered with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). The latest ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Friday defended his finance minister from attacks from the ruling party's youth wing and called for action to be taken against ANC members who continue to argue publicly. His comments, in a letter published on the party's website, are the strongest yet following public spats between members of the ...

Nigeria's ruling party is planning crucial talks after Acting President Goodluck Jonathan sacked a government he inherited from the country's ailing head of state, sources said. The People Democratic Party's highest decision making body was expected to meet next week to discuss the cabinet dissolution as well as start planning for general elections due next year. Jonathan ...

International donors are to gather in Egypt's capital on Sunday with a two-billion-dollar target for the reconstruction of Darfur, Sudan's western region devastated by a seven-year war. The one-day conference has been organised by the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which groups 57 members to form the world's largest Islamic assembly, and is to be co-chaired ...